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<blockquote data-quote="Stopspying" data-source="post: 946294" data-attributes="member: 69368"><p>I understand why some people like the idea of personalising the newsfeed. Personally I prefer to keep my interests as unpredictable as possible to any online source, they know some things about me, sometimes that is more information than I can remember about my myself, but I don&#039;t want them knowing everything about me. Artificial intelligence is only as intelligent as it is trained and allowed to be. If I buy a product on Ebay I get bombarded afterwards with suggestions for the same thing, or what their AI decides is similar. I don&#039;t want 47 bicycles, sheds, universal chargers or tap washers. If I read a news story online about the tax avoidance schemes that allow the richest people in the world to get even richer by not paying taxes that mere mortals have to cough up for, I don&#039;t want to read 47 other news stories on the same thing from different sources, or worse, a curated set of sources. Reading alternative takes on a news item is healthy if you want to get a balanced viewpoint, 47 takes on it eats into my life just a bit too much.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Stopspying, post: 946294, member: 69368"] I understand why some people like the idea of personalising the newsfeed. Personally I prefer to keep my interests as unpredictable as possible to any online source, they know some things about me, sometimes that is more information than I can remember about my myself, but I don't want them knowing everything about me. Artificial intelligence is only as intelligent as it is trained and allowed to be. If I buy a product on Ebay I get bombarded afterwards with suggestions for the same thing, or what their AI decides is similar. I don't want 47 bicycles, sheds, universal chargers or tap washers. If I read a news story online about the tax avoidance schemes that allow the richest people in the world to get even richer by not paying taxes that mere mortals have to cough up for, I don't want to read 47 other news stories on the same thing from different sources, or worse, a curated set of sources. Reading alternative takes on a news item is healthy if you want to get a balanced viewpoint, 47 takes on it eats into my life just a bit too much. [/QUOTE]

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